"down but not out" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to the sport of boxing, where a boxer has been incapacitated by an opponent but not yet knocked out.",
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      "expansion": "down but not out (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "orig": "en:Boxing",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907 October, [Hannibal] Hamlin Garland, “Marshall Haney’s Sentence”, in Money Magic: A Novel, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 333",
          "text": "He raised dim eyes to her, eyes that seemed already filmed with death's opaque curtains, but bravely, slowly smiled. \"I'm down, but not out, darlin'. That brute of a doctor jolted me hard; I nearly took the count—but I'm—still in the ring.[…]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, The Independent, volume LXXV, New York, N.Y.: Published for the proprietors, →OCLC, page 638, column 1",
          "text": "The intention is not to make it a hotel for downs and outs, the riffraff of Chicago’s slums, but to have it a hotel where men who are ‘down’ but not ‘out’ can obtain comfortable rooms and wholesome food at nominal prices.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Peter Snowdon, “The Makings of a Landslide”, in Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection, London: HarperPress, HarperCollins, page 5",
          "text": "By midnight, two hours after the polls had closed, the first results showed a massive 10 per cent swing right across the country. […] A defeated David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, left the count down but not out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Temporarily",
          "temporarily"
        ],
        [
          "incapacitated",
          "incapacitated#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "permanently",
          "permanently"
        ],
        [
          "defeated",
          "defeated#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bloody, but unbowed"
        },
        {
          "word": "down and out"
        },
        {
          "english": "motto of Paris",
          "word": "fluctuat nec mergitur"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated",
          "word": "maassa muttei tyrmätty"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaʊn bət nɒt ˈaʊt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaʊn bət nɑt ˈaʊt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "audio": "en-au-down but not out.ogg",
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "down but not out"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to the sport of boxing, where a boxer has been incapacitated by an opponent but not yet knocked out.",
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      },
      "expansion": "down but not out (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bloody, but unbowed"
    },
    {
      "word": "down and out"
    },
    {
      "english": "motto of Paris",
      "word": "fluctuat nec mergitur"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with audio links",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "en:Boxing"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907 October, [Hannibal] Hamlin Garland, “Marshall Haney’s Sentence”, in Money Magic: A Novel, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 333",
          "text": "He raised dim eyes to her, eyes that seemed already filmed with death's opaque curtains, but bravely, slowly smiled. \"I'm down, but not out, darlin'. That brute of a doctor jolted me hard; I nearly took the count—but I'm—still in the ring.[…]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, The Independent, volume LXXV, New York, N.Y.: Published for the proprietors, →OCLC, page 638, column 1",
          "text": "The intention is not to make it a hotel for downs and outs, the riffraff of Chicago’s slums, but to have it a hotel where men who are ‘down’ but not ‘out’ can obtain comfortable rooms and wholesome food at nominal prices.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Peter Snowdon, “The Makings of a Landslide”, in Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection, London: HarperPress, HarperCollins, page 5",
          "text": "By midnight, two hours after the polls had closed, the first results showed a massive 10 per cent swing right across the country. […] A defeated David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, left the count down but not out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated."
      ],
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        [
          "Temporarily",
          "temporarily"
        ],
        [
          "incapacitated",
          "incapacitated#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "permanently",
          "permanently"
        ],
        [
          "defeated",
          "defeated#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaʊn bət nɒt ˈaʊt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdaʊn bət nɑt ˈaʊt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-down but not out.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/En-au-down_but_not_out.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "temporarily incapacitated but not permanently defeated",
      "word": "maassa muttei tyrmätty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "down but not out"
}